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But the scientific inquirer knows that they constitute science only in connection with the methods by which they are reached.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “But the scientific inquirer knows that they constitute science only in connection with the methods by which they are…”
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Dewey emphasizes the importance of scientific methods in distinguishing true science from mere conclusions.
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We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.